A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 38 Empty Gloves White Wolf

early morning.

Huaiyu first practiced Jin Gong to warm up, and then practiced with the four-edged golden mace given by Qin Qiong. This mace was too heavy, so he had to practice with both hands.

Father Wu stood by and watched for a while, pointed out a few places where the force was not appropriate, and then began to practice boxing. Although he was old, his boxing was still whistling.

Huaiyi was practicing swords. During his vacation, the Changyi Dao and other heavy weapons were stored in the arsenal of the camp. He only had the ring-headed horizontal knife beside him, so he carried the three-foot-long horizontal knife and chopped there. Although the horizontal knife It's light and short, but in his hands it's extremely domineering.

On the other hand, Fatty Wu found a leg bone of lamb from somewhere in the morning and sat on the porch gnawing on it, while the young Wu Xuanxi was reading.

Huaiyu used the golden mace as a sledgehammer, although Qin Qiong taught the 24 strokes to be unconnected, but the whistling wind, if you really want to touch it, you may not die or be disabled. The six-pound heavy mace, Huaiyu thinks it is European hands It can also be used with a big sword.

The epee has no front, so it's a coincidence that it doesn't work.

After half an hour of morning exercise, I was covered in sweat.

Run Niang came over to help wipe the sweat gently and considerately, "Breakfast is ready, go and have a meal."

There is also a bathroom in this courtyard. Chen Xing and Zhao Xin helped to fetch a few loads of water from the well, and just rinse it off.

Breakfast is simple steamed cakes, steamed buns without stuffing, or miscellaneous grains, but the quantity is enough, and a group of people are gobbling it up, everyone has a good appetite.

No one was picky, even Wu Xixuan, a student at Xiuwen Hall, stuttered four times.

"I plan to go to the camp later." Huaiyi ate eight steamed cakes in one breath. He felt that his body had almost recovered, and his wounds were scabbed. He didn't want to continue the long vacation. comrades in the camp."

Fatty Wu smiled and said: "Then you have to show them your scars when you arrive at the camp, and tell them that it was so serious at that time, and it was because of Erlang's panacea that they healed so quickly."

Fatty asked Huaiyi to promote advertisements, promote Qianjintang's medicine, and take some orders. He even promised Huaiyi a commission reward for his orders.

"That's no problem. It's okay to spread the word about good things. As for giving me money, there's no need for it. Erlang is my brother. It's only right for me to help with my own business."

"That won't work, one yard is worth one yard." The fat man also insisted on giving Huaiyu a commission.

Lao Wu planned to go home after breakfast. He was not very used to Chang'an, but still liked Longqiao Fort by the Qinghe River, his cave dwellings and land.

"Let's go tomorrow. We'll go to the Dongxi market to buy medicine and buy some things for the family. Tomorrow, Aye, you can take them back." Huaiyu plans to stay in Chang'an for the time being. He also suggests Let the youngest Huailiang stay, let Run Niang supervise the study first, and when the Wu's Academy opens, it happens to study here.

If Huaiyi ends his vacation early in the camp, he will definitely not be able to return to Sanyuan often in the future. He will live in the camp directly, and he can come to Huaiyuanfang to live when he is not on duty, and he can also help.

Lao Wu looked at his three sons, "It's a good thing that the kids have grown up and can make a living in Chang'an."

He said he didn't need to waste money on buying things and wanted to go back with Hou San directly, but Huaiyu still kept him, and Runniang also handed over the land deed of [-] acres of irrigated land in Lijiazhuang that the Li family gave her as a dowry. He said, "Aye went back to Sanyuan, so he went to Lijiazhuang to harvest the [-] mu of land and plant it, and there is also a farming ox."

"Okay, I'll go back and take over the land and cattle. When you return to Longqiao Castle, I'll give you the land deed. This is your dowry, so you keep it safe."

The dowry belongs to the woman's pre-marital property, and it is also a guarantee for the higher status of women in the Tang Dynasty. This kind of dowry, even in a large family, is not included in the family property, and the land and income still belong to the woman.If divorced or divorced, the dowry will be taken away naturally. Even if the woman dies, the dowry is generally left to her children, and some childless may be taken back by her natal family.

Although Runniang was a concubine given to Huaiyu by the Li family, she had land, cattle, and money to marry as a dowry. Generally, landlords might not have so many daughters, so Lao Wu was naturally very polite to her.

After the meal, Huaiyu asked Runniang to fetch one hundred guan silk from the warehouse in the backyard, and asked Chen Xing to help move it to the warehouse in the middle courtyard, which was temporarily the warehouse of Qianjintang, and there were still 420 pieces of silk in advance paid by Fan's yesterday.

Fatty Wu also asked his entourage to go back to Jinchengfang Xuancheng Gongfu's house early in the morning, but he brought money and silk, and brought more than 800 bolts of silk.

In the warehouse, there are more than 500 bolts of silk.

The two were very excited looking at the silk, which was a good sign for a good start.

It was also the first time for Father Lian Wu to see so many silks piled up together.

Fatty Wu called a part from the mansion to be in charge of cashiers and warehouse management. He was in his early fifties and his surname was Liu. Even the daughter-in-law is fat man's wife Liu's rewarded maid to marry, because she is honest and honest and can read and keep accounts. She was originally the steward of the fat man's outer courtyard, but now she is transferred to be the cashier of Qianjintang.

Run Niang was in charge of the accounting room, and Lao Liu was in charge of the warehouse. One accountant and the other a cashier, with more than 500 bolts of silk, the two carefully counted and put them into the warehouse.

Xin Zhao, the shopkeeper, looked at those silks with bright eyes.

Billed and stamped at Runniang's, and then went to Lao Liu's to get hundreds of bolts of silk, Xin Zhao excitedly carried the silk with Chen Xing and got into the car, and the group rushed to the West Market.

When the market drum rang in the afternoon in the west market, they lined up at the front of the queue at the square gate and entered the market directly.

Today's task is to buy the medicinal materials of the ten bottles of elixir that Fan's needs first, and buy some more raw materials by the way, and then look at the shop in Dongshi.

With the experience of buying medicine last time, Huaiyu is very familiar with buying medicine this time, and Zhao Xin, the dentist, and Chen Xing, the wealthy management assistant, no one can fool them.

Huaiyu was also very polite to those future colleagues. He bought a lot of high, medium and low-grade medicinal materials, and like Baimao, each larger drug store bought some separately.

Many drug dealers also know Zhao Xin, Chen Xing, Lao Liu, the stewards of the Yongkang government, the stewards of the Xuancheng government, and the Yaman Zhao Xin, who are also related to the Wu family. Seeing them accompany Huaiyu, a young man, they are all very happy. curious.

Chen Xing and the others also intentionally or unintentionally revealed that Wu Junya is the eldest son of Duke Xuancheng, nephew of Duke Ying, Cang Cao of the right guard joined the army, and the two brothers with golden knives are also from the Wu family, and one is still in the camp Baiqi.

Soon after buying a lot of medicine, Huaiyu took everyone to buy some other things.

Ask Runniang to help buy gifts for the Liu family, the elder sister, the two younger nieces and the younger sister. There are beautiful floral cloths, headbands, and some hairpins and other jewelry. Also bought a few of each.

"This silver hairpin is beautiful, and this ox horn comb is also beautiful, so you can wear it." Huaiyu also picked out a few for Runniang, making her very happy.

Huaiyu bought a scarf and a new belt for his father. Old Wu said it was a waste of money, and he was very happy.

"Let's go, put the things back in Huaiyuanfang, and then go to Dongshi."

Everyone returned with a full load.

When they arrived in Dongshi, Xin Zhao took Huaiyu and the others to see the shops they were looking for. Unfortunately, they were either too small and the location was bad, or the good ones were too expensive, or they refused to rent or sell them.

"That's all the pavements are now. There are still some vacant spaces in the medicine store. You can buy them and it's not too expensive. But you have to hire someone to build the pavement yourself, which is too time-consuming."

Huaiyu went to see the open space, which is next to the current medicine store, and the ground is full of rotten bricks and tiles. It is said that there was a fire here during the Daye years, and half of the pavement on the medicine store was burned down, and later it was partially rebuilt. However, many of them have not been repaired due to reasons such as the war at the end of the Sui Dynasty.

The officials of the Eastern City Office said that the land was very cheap, and the City Office also encouraged businessmen to buy land, build houses and build shops. Now that it is left unused, it is a piece of waste land.

It's just that ordinary businessmen are unwilling to buy land to build a house, because it takes time, especially because there are too many rotten bricks and tiles on the ground, and the cost of cleaning alone is not small, it is not a small project.Especially at the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, Chang'an was far from being restored to the prosperity of the Sui Dynasty. There was no shortage of shops in the East City, and there were still many empty shops. Whether it was renting or buying, it was more cost-effective than buying the land and building it yourself. .

Huaiyu walked around a few times, and the ready-made shops in the medicine store are not very satisfactory to him. The layout inside is more traditional, which does not match his planned business method. When renting and buying, it still needs to be redecorated.

"Brother, I don't think it's better for us to buy wasteland here. We hire people to build it ourselves, and then lay it out according to our needs. I checked it out. It's very cost-effective and can save a lot of money. Before the shop is built, we first build it in Pharmacy in Huaiyuan Square."

Wu Junya also felt that these pieces of land were really cheap, but the dilapidated walls and broken bricks and tiles would cost a lot of labor and money just to clean them up.

"Clean it up, and it's almost time for the construction. Including that, it's not worth the money, and it will take a lot of time." The fat man looked left and right and shook his head.

"Brother, I have a way. It doesn't cost much money or time to clear this piece of land. I can even discuss with the Municipal Department to clear the entire wasteland of the medicine store. Clean it up and we can charge less."

The fat man looked at him curiously, "Is there any good way to do this?"

"There are always more solutions than difficulties, just listen to me." He leaned into the fat man's ear and whispered, and the fat man's eyes widened as he listened, "Can it still be like this?"

"Try it."

The fat man became interested, "Just try it, he will go directly to the Municipal Department for an order."

The east and west cities of Chang'an each have municipal bureaus and peace bureaus. The municipal bureau orders are from the sixth-rank officials, who are in charge of transactions and are affiliated to Taifu Temple.

The Pingzhun Bureau is also called the Pingzhun Bureau. The chief official Pingzhunling, from Qipin, is in charge of official and market transactions.

There are hundreds of lines in the two cities of Chang'an, and tens of thousands of merchants are managed by them. It is common for merchants to invest in banks, rent shops and buy land on weekdays, but today there are still people who want money from the City Administration.

"That large piece of land was abandoned there, it is too unsightly, and it is becoming more and more inconvenient. Now that the world is unified, the population of Chang'an is increasing, the two cities are also more prosperous, and the demand for paving in the two cities is also great. It's a pity that those ruins are there. If they are cleaned up, it will cost a lot of money whether they are sold or rented out.

Our Dongshi drug store has always been stronger than the West market drug store, but now many drug dealers have gone to the West market to open their businesses. Many of them are because there are no good shops in the East market. In the final analysis, it is because our Dongshi drug store has a There is a large piece of land, but it is unusable there, causing everyone to run to the West Market..."

Although the eastern and western cities have their own priorities, they are also competitive for managers. Poor political performance will affect the evaluation and promotion.

Fatty was very eloquent, saying that they were willing to contribute to Dongshi, as long as the project price was very low, they were willing to clean up the waste land for Dongshi.

This price is only a little more than half of the normal project price.

The Municipal Department also knew that the location of the land was good, but the cost of cleaning it up was too high, so the matter was delayed again and again.

It's just that Jiang Fei really has no choice, otherwise, who would like to spend more money and energy, Dongshi Medicine Store and other shops, if it's really not possible, you can go to West Market.

"Is this true?"

"That can still deceive the Municipal Department's order. We are also optimistic about Dongshi. We want to open in Dongshi. We especially want to get a large piece of land and build a big pharmacy. Now we also want to clean it up together, so that in the future we will pharmacy After the building is built, it won’t be affected by the dilapidated land next to it.”

"Do you dare to sign a contract and guarantee it in black and white?" The municipal office order is a sixth-rank official, but it is still only a green-robed official. It is quite a difficult hurdle to pass the sixth rank to the fifth rank and wear the scarlet robe. Those who make market orders are generally inferior to those state officials. He needs to have outstanding political achievements, and it is a fortune to be able to make more money.

Fatty asked Zhao Xin to sign a contract on behalf of Qianjintang, and promised that if the land could not be cleared within three months, he was willing to pay [-] bolts of silk, and he would pay [-] bolts of silk as a deposit after signing the contract.

If it is cleaned up on schedule, then the Municipal Department will pay Qianjintang according to the agreed cleaning fee. Qianjintang plans to buy one of the lands to be a drug store, and the cleaning fee will be equal to the land price.

If Huaiyu can really do this, it means that he can get a piece of land in Dongshi for free.Dongshi has a total area of ​​about [-] mu and occupies two squares. The well-shaped street divides Dongshi into nine grids, and each grid is further divided by cross streets, where various businesses gather and operate.

Dongshi Medicine Store is located in the southeast corner, which is the northeast corner of the southeast area, occupying about one-tenth of the [-] mu of land in the southeast, about [-] mu of land.

Because of the deserted land, the drugstores of Dongshi Pharmacy are relatively small. Except for those famous big drugstores, which are operated by several shops together, most of them are three meters wide. There are [-] square meters of small pavements with a depth of about [-] meters and [-] meters, and there are also [-] square pavements combined with three pavements.

The three shops are only about [-] square meters, which caused many drug dealers to rent another warehouse in the surrounding Huaiyuan Square.
Merchants rent or buy another house behind the shop in Dongshi, forming a shop in the front and a workshop in the back. The front is for sales and consultation, and the back is for processing.

The Municipal Department ordered Huaiyu to reach an agreement that as long as Huaiyu could clean up the waste land, he would be given three large paved lands at that time, and the cleaning fee would be offset by the land purchase price.

The three large pavements are connected together, which is 30 meters wide and three meters deep, which is a total of [-] square meters.Although they will have to build their own shops by then, at least they won't have to pay for the land.

If Huaiyu wants to build a workshop or even a private house behind the store, he can get cheap land.If more ruins beside the medicine market can be cleared out, even these land prices can be offset.

Both parties were very satisfied with this agreement. The Municipal Department felt that it would be possible to clean up the dilapidated land without having to pay for it, and then it would be able to attract merchants and sell the land to collect money. Huaiyu was also very satisfied. Such a large piece of land was obtained for nothing. But in Dongshi, there will be more and more merchants in the future, and the industry and commerce will become more and more prosperous, and this shop will become more and more expensive.

What's more, the location is actually quite good, facing the intersection, the two points of land are very valuable.

With the contract in hand and another three hundred pieces of silk as a deposit, Huaiyu and his party left the city office in the east city center and continued back to the medicine market in the southeast corner.

"I hope Erlang's method works, otherwise we will have to clear this large area for the Municipal Department and lose money."

"Don't worry!" Huaiyu was full of confidence!
(End of this chapter)